Loving Learning

We had a fantastic week last week! It was full of interesting activities that sparked our imaginations and tuned us into our unit of Inquiry.

Here are some of the highlights for the week;

Writing: We started the week writing recounts about our Pchum Ben holiday experiences. Then we leapt into the world of poetry. Our school librarian Ms Rachel visited us and we discovered how to look at the World through 'poetry eyes' and 'scientists eyes.' This was a fantastic lead in to our unit focus on 'perspective'. We looked at ordinary objects and described them from these two different perspectives. Then we worked with a buddy and created these ideas into the first draft of our poem. We have also been learning how to respond to each- others work in a variety of ways.
Later in the week we looked at writing nonsense poems using rhyming couplets. We will publish these next week for 'Poem in your Pocket Day'.

Finding Ways to Present our Learning:
Throughout our unit we will be keeping a digital journal that will demonstrates our learning and showcase our artistic creations. This will be uploaded as a video onto student pages at the end of the unit. We explored how to use Book Creator to create a cover page for this, and then Mr Matt introduced us to other ways to record, present, and save our learning.

Mathematics:
We have been looking at effective strategies to assist us with subtraction. Next week we begin our learning on 'shape' so we completed a prior knowledge assessment so we can gauge an understanding of our next learning steps.


Reading: 
Our guided reading sessions continued throughout the week. Children worked on decoding and comprehension strategies and reinforced their understanding by playing literacy games, creating mind maps, and responding to text in a variety of ways. We had a guest reader in class this week. Thilde and Bjarke (Anton's mum and Dad ) visited with Anton's new baby sister. Thilde shared a favourite tale from Denmark called 'Clumsy Hans'. It was written by Hans Christen Anderson. It was a wonderful story and it was lovely to have them join us! If you would like to come in as a guest reader...please let me know!

Unit of Inquiry:
This week we focussed on what art is, and what different 'forms' of art there are. We added to our list of art forms as a follow upon our homework task. We discussed our ideas in class.

We explored perspective with our buddies when we had 20 minutes to create an artwork on a common theme  'garden'. We then compared our work...looking at how our perspectives and choice of colour / medium / form differed. We used a venn diagram to assist us with this.

Here are some of our different perspectives.

Not a Stick:

We used our creativity and imagination to create something new from an ordinary stick! Then we read the 'Not a Stick' book by Antoinette Portis.